Across the Universe (2 disc set)
(2007)

Set in America during the Vietnam war at the height of political and social unrest, this powerful love story from award-winning director Julie Taymor (TITUS) uses music by the Beatles to tell its heart-felt story. Part Moulin Rouge, part Hair and starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, Across...  More

Betty Blokk-Buster Follies
(1976) [M]

The gay-themed, enormously popular stage act of the Australian female impersonator/impressionist/comedian Reg Livermore, is recorded here on film. His song impressions include Lou Reed, Billy Joel, and Charles Azanavour. The characters he enacts include Betty Blokk-Buster, a German maid who wears...  More

Starstruck
(1982) [PG]

Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) is a reluctant barmaid in her family's struggling Sydney pub. She wants to be a singing star and her 14-year old oddball cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) has a crazy showbiz idea that might just make it happen for her. Manipulating the media, Angus pulls off a brazen...  More

Dancer In The Dark
(2000) [MA]

Selma has emigrated with her son from east Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life...  More

Cabaret
(1972) [M]

Winner of 8 Oscars, including Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Liza Minnelli) and Best Supporting Actor (Joel Grey), 3 Golden Globes and 6 BAFTAs, and widely regarded as one of the finest Hollywood musicals of all time, Cabaret first burst onto cinema screens in 1972, wowing audiences the...  More

Donkey Skin
(1970) [G]

Based on a story by Charles Perrault, DONKEY SKIN takes place in an amorphous medieval kingdom of a king (Jean Marais), his queen, and their beautiful daughter, the princess (Catherine Deneuve). When the queen dies, the king takes an oath that he will only marry a woman more beautiful than she....  More

Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
(1999) [G]

For the first time ever Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's fun filled musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT has been specially filmed for video. Inspired by the record breaking London Palladium production, this brand new video stars Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard...  More

Scrooge
(1970) [G]

Mean-spirited and stingy, Ebenezer Scrooge has a sour face and "humbug" for anyone who crosses his path. But on this Christmas Eve, he will learn the horrible fate that awaits him if he continues his miserly ways. One by one, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take the startled...  More

The Producers
(2005) [M]

New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then...  More

My Sister Eileen
(1955) [G]

The Sherwood sisters get of the train in Manhattan looking for fame and fortune. Eileen (Janet Leigh, Academy Award nominee 1960, Best Supporting Actress, Psycho), a beautiful aspiring actress and Ruth (Betty Garrett, TV's "Laverne & Shirley"), a loveless would-be writer, move to New York to...  More

The Blue Angel
(1930) [PG]

The film that made Marlene Dietrich a star is an icon of Weimar cinema. Filmed simultaneously in German and English, Directors Suite presents both versions in their original, different forms. Dietrich stars as cabaret star Lola Lola, the resident attraction at The Blue Angel. When the upright,...  More

The Threepenny Opera
(1931) [PG]

The original French and German versions of this Brecht-Weill musical are included with subtitles. Set in a dreamlike Victorian London, the story of Mack the Knife and Polly Peachum is timeless and the music as fresh as ever.  More

Absolute Beginners
(1986) [PG]

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and...  More

Shock Treatment
(1981) [PG]

Following on from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", this musical is set several years later in Brad and Janet Majors' hometown - which has become a giant TV station; residents are either participants or viewers. They are married now, but their romance has fallen on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix...  More

Gigi
(1958) [G]

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor (Louis Jourdan) in Paris offers them all to Gigi (Leslie Caron). But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy....  More

My Fair Lady (2 Disc Set)
(1964) [G]

Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl who, under the guidance of Professor Higgins, played by Rex Harrison, becomes the Belle of British Society. Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and blessed with an array of scintillating songs this classic movie is a feast...  More

The Sound Of Music (2 Disc Set)
(1965) [G]

In the ever popular The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews plays Maria, a novice nun who becomes a governess to a widowed Baron's (Christopher Plummer) children. While romance appears to be blooming, the family is faced with more immediate danger, which results in Maria leading their transformation...  More

The King And I
(1956) [G]

Winner of 5 Academy Awards, this musical masterpiece features an unforgettable score, dazzling choreography and some of the best-loved songs of all time including 'Getting to Know You', 'Whistle A Happy Tune', 'Shall We Dance?' and 'Hello, Young Lovers'. Deborah Kerr and Oscar winner Yul Brynner...  More

Blues Brothers 2000
(1998) [PG]

Eighteen years after the brothers' original "mission from God", Elwood Blues is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he's been away. His partner Jake is gone, his band is no longer together and the orphanage where he grew up has been demolished. Elwood soon...  More

Funny Face
(1957) [G]

S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous! Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up for the only time and bring their luminous star power to this exquisite musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. This dazzling romp filmed on location in Paris garnered...  More

Hello Dolly
(1968) [G]

Barbra Streisand is a knockout as Dolly Levi, the woman "who arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives." The famed plot concerns Dolly, a young widow and professional matchmaker who sets her sights on conquering tight-fisted Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, beautifully played...  More

Annie Get Your Gun
(1950) [G]

A fantastical and flashy theatrical version of Irving Berlin's Wild West Show musical about Annie Oakley getting her man. The bright and brassy Betty Hutton sparkles in this fictionalised story of Oakley, the sharpshooter who wins fame and the heart of fellow sharpshooter Frank Bulter (Howard...  More

Calamity Jane
(1953) [G]

Deadwood, in untamed Dakota Territory, is a man's world on the edge of the Wild West, but hard riding, sharp shooting Calamity Jane (Doris Day) can keep up with the best of them. She's too darned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay much attention to girlie dresses and perfume and...  More

The Pirates Of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
(1982) [G]

Brilliantly filmed stage performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic. With Peter Allen as the pirate king. As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at...  More

G.I. Blues
(1960) [G]

The year was 1960. A payola scandal shocks the music world. Movie fans are introduced to glorious Smell-O-Vision. The 50-star flag is adopted. And in G.I. Blues, Elvis adopts an on-screen persona he knows well in real life-a singin' G.I in West Germany. Eager to open a stateside nightclub after...  More

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953) [G]

Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but this blonde bombshell prefers diamonds, and lots of them! Glamorous showgirl Marilyn sets sail for France, intent on marrying a rich, yet boring, beau. But anything can - and does - happen with the beautiful and fun-loving Jane Russell acting as chaperone. From...  More

There's No Business Like Show Business
(1954) [G]

Marilyn Monroe and an all-star cast are featured in Irving Berlin's tuneful depiction of the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. The talented Donahue family has plenty of love to get them through the hard times - that is, until they cross paths with a rising starlet (Monroe) whose...  More

King Creole
(1958) [PG]

The year was 1958. Everybody's datin' at the drive-in. America launches its first satellite. The novel Lolita stirs up controversy. And Elvis Presley gives Bourbon Street a new beat in King Creole. He plays a troubled youth whose singing sets the French Quarter rockin'. With a sweet girl to love...  More

The Nightmare Before Christmas
(1993) [G]

Bored and unhappy with the life of being "The Pumpkin King" Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers "Christmas Town" and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.  More

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [M]

What do a Transylvanian transvestite, a cryogenically-preserved motorbiker and a Frankenstein's monster wearing golden underpants all have in common? They're all crucial parts of Rocky Horror Picture Show, the comedy cult classic which is at once hysterical, indispensable and truly disturbing....  More